OpenCSW is an alternative packet resource for Solaris. You can install many open source (GNU) packages to Solaris 10 and it comes with an installer (pkg-get) which is easy to use and resolves dependencies.

So this is how I added opencsw support to Soalris 10:

• If you`re behind a proxy you have to set HTTPPROXY and HTTPPROXYPORT env:
  export HTTPPROXY=<servername>
  export HTTPPROXYPORT=8080
• Now you can install the OpenCSW packet:
  pkgadd -d http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg
• This didn`t work for me because it couldn`t communicate with our proxy. So I had to get the packet with wget:
  export http_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
  /usr/sfw/bin/wget http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg
  pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg
• Now you should edit /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf and set the proxy parameters as well as setting the url config parameter to point to a mirror closer to you:
  ftp_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
  http_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
  export http_proxy ftp_proxy
  url=http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/current
• You can find a list of mirrors here.
• Now its a good time to update your packets (we first include /opt/csw/bin in our PATH. You can also make this persistent by setting this in your shells rc file.)
  export PATH=$PATH:/opt/csw/bin
  pkg-get -u

Now you have OpenCSW installed. Get a list of all available packets with “pkg-get -a” and install it with “pkg-get -i <packetname>”. To remove a packet, you should use the built-in Solaris command “pkgrm”.

opencsw · solaris

I know. This is documented well in a lot of wikis and blogs. I’m just blogging this to find it faster the next time

First, create a new block device:

lofiadm -a <isofile> /dev/lofi/1

Then mount it:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

And in a single command:

mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a <isofile>` /mnt

solaris · tech